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Toy Fights

- A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd
Af: Don Paterson Engelsk Hardback

Toy Fights

- A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd
Af: Don Paterson Engelsk Hardback
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Exquisitely sharp, deeply humane and brutally hilarious, Toy Fights is a future classic from one of the greatest writers of his generation.

''Devastatingly funny.'' Geoff Dyer
''Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant'' Scotsman
''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Herald on Sunday

This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored.

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate. When he wasn’t busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of Toy Fights, working with his country-and-western singer dad, screwing up in the Boys’ Brigade, obsessing over God, origami, The Osmonds, stamps, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, failing his exams, playing guitar, falling in love, dodging employment and descending into madness. While he didn’t manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life – before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London – did, for better or worse, shape who he would become.

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Exquisitely sharp, deeply humane and brutally hilarious, Toy Fights is a future classic from one of the greatest writers of his generation.

''Devastatingly funny.'' Geoff Dyer
''Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant'' Scotsman
''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Herald on Sunday

This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored.

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate. When he wasn’t busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of Toy Fights, working with his country-and-western singer dad, screwing up in the Boys’ Brigade, obsessing over God, origami, The Osmonds, stamps, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, failing his exams, playing guitar, falling in love, dodging employment and descending into madness. While he didn’t manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life – before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London – did, for better or worse, shape who he would become.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9780571240272
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0571240275
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 19 jan 2023
Længde: 38mm
Bredde: 226mm
Højde: 145mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 19 jan 2023
Forfatter(e): Don Paterson
Forfatter(e) Don Paterson

Kategori Forside

ISBN-13 9780571240272

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 384

Udgave

Længde 38mm

Bredde 226mm

Højde 145mm

Udg. Dato 19 jan 2023

Oplagsdato 19 jan 2023

Forlag Faber & Faber